I keep my diary primarily for myself, but I share. Many of
the things I write in it are almost certainly of interest to me only, like when I last had a
haircut (so that I can plan for the next one). I started keeping a diary regularly in
January 1963 (on paper, of course), and I've been keeping a regular electronic diary since
September 2000. I've transcribed some of the more interesting paper diary entries
electronically.

Since this is my diary, I don't provide for online comment feedback. If you have a
comment, send me mail, and I will decide whether to publish it (assuming you don't tell me
you don't want it published). Note also that this diary is not
a blog, which implies a very different
layout and interaction. To make the distinction, I kept a blog for a while as well. The content is
similar, but the presentation is emetic, and the online comments illustrate why I don't
provide for them in my diary.

Apart from the HTML version, which includes some
limited JavaScript for things like
resizing images, there's also an RSS version
available here. RSS doesn't allow JavaScript, so some
functionality is missing, in particular the ability to compare two photos in situ by
running the mouse cursor over the first image.

Some of the work I do is confidential, so you won't always find mention of what I'm really
doing. Sorry about that. I've already had incidents where journalists took a diary entry
out of context and caused embarrassment for people around me, and I don't want to do that
again.

And yes, I've broken my own rule and done a limited
form of reverse chronological layout here. I'm assuming that the greatest interest is in
the diary entries of the past few years, and this layout is more convenient. There are
exceptions to (nearly) every rule.

20th century

The entries between 1 January 1963 and 1 October 1970 come from diaries I kept on paper during the time indicated; they're very incomplete, but
may be of interest. The others are from other sources (mainly memory).